ModPo Short: 1-minute video on the social specificity of the Beats
From an October 17, 2018, live webcast, featuring poet-critic Angela Carr.
Category: webcast
Live collaborative close reading of Wallace Stevens’s “The Snow Man”
On Thursday, January 28, at 6:00 PM (ET), Kelly Writers House Faculty Director & ModPo founder Al Filreis will lead a collaborative close reading of Wallace Stevens’s poem “The Snow Man” — and you...
audio-only livestream of ModPo webcasts!
We are pleased to announce that you can now listen to an audio livestream of a live ModPo webcast. This is ideal for folks with slow internet connections, and for people who are traveling...
Doug Kearney in ModPo
ModPo people might recall that Doug Kearney visited us back in November 2019 and joined us for the Beat week webcast. We edited several clips from the full recording of the webcast, and have...
re-reading Brooks’s “Boy Breaking Glass” in the context of documentary photography (new video)
During our live webcast co-hosted with MoMA, we talked about Gwendolyn Brooks’s “Boy Breaking Glass” in the context provided by our discussion of Dorothea Lange’s documentary photography of Depression-era people who move into the...
MoMA/ModPo combo webcast, June 11, 2020, at 11 AM (eastern US time)
Save the date! On Thursday, June 11, at 11 AM (eastern U.S. time) ModPo and MoMA (the Museum of Modern Art in New York City) will be kicking off a collaboration with a live...
re-reading Ashbery’s “Hard Times” in a time of pandemic
During our May 13, 2020, live interactive webcast, we talked about re-reading John Ashbery’s “Hard Times” a time of pandemic. Here is that segment of the webcast:
ModPo webcast on Wednesday May 13 starting at noon
We are hosting a special “SloPo” season live interactive webcast this week—on Wednesday, May 13, starting at NOON Philadelphia time. To check out your time difference, click HERE. To watch the live webcast, just...
ModPo 2020 webcast schedule now set!
ModPo people: mark your calendars! The schedule of ModPo 2020 webcasts has now been finalized! Note our special visitors during weeks 3, 6, and 10. And note also that this year our road trip will...
Final Words webcast (Nov 18 at 10:30 AM)
Tomorrow morning at 10:30 AM Philadelphia time we will be going live with our last webcast of 2019—our annual “Final Words” webcast. Please plan to join us! HERE is your link to the live...